Tweets of the Week

Attending the Parents United Leadership Summit to consider the message we want to send about public education in MN. #puls11 #fb 2011-04-11
Cassellius: 835k out of about 1m MN kids in public schools. #puls11 2011-04-11
Cassellius: 34% cut to MDE proposed by the House. We don't want to have the sign become the Federal Department of Education. #puls11 #fb 2011-04-11
Cassellius: does not know how many of the legislators have kids in public schools. Can we put that picture together for her? #puls11 #fb 2011-04-11
Hutchinson: 69% of jobs will require college education, only 50% go to college, only 27% earn a post-secondary degree. #puls11 #fb 2011-04-11
Hutchinson: Only 12% of African Americans, 9% Asians, 8% Hispanics. Only 2% black boys! Unsustainable hit to the economy. #puls11 #fb 2011-04-11
Hutchinson: Effective teaching matters more than anything else. Kid in 50th percentile hits 90th w 3 effective teachers in a row. #puls11 2011-04-11
Hutchinson: Kid in 50th percentile only hits 37th with 3 ineffective teachers in a row. Link tenure to effectiveness. #puls11 2011-04-11
Hutchinson: we will replace half of MN teachers by the end of the decade, let's make sure we replace them with effective teachers! #puls11 2011-04-11
Hutchinson: Bush Foundation trying to address teacher effectiveness with NExT Teacher Initiative http://t.co/NqKJHBH #puls11 #fb 2011-04-11
Parents United http://t.co/Rmfc84C #puls11 summit continues with Karen Balmer from MN Bd of Teaching #fb 2011-04-11
Balmer discussing article http://t.co/3w0iUug on teacher licensing violations #puls11 2011-04-11
Balmer: 32 institutions prepare teachers in 650 programs with standards in 40+ fields in MN #puls11 2011-04-11
Balmer: tech related licensure difficult because the target moves faster than the language can work through the process of approval #puls11 2011-04-11
Balmer: considering new autism spectrum disorders license due to explosion of kids w ASD in schools #puls11 2011-04-11
Balmer: redesigning program approval and teacher performance assessment, aiming at effectiveness #puls11 2011-04-11
Balmer: on acronym roll, TPA supported by AACTE, CCSSO, and PACT nationally as well as MACTE and MDR in MN. 20 states in TPAC. #puls11 2011-04-11
Balmer: MN and WA leading the pack with Stanford team http://t.co/eSKsttw on teacher performance assessment #puls11 #fb 2011-04-11
Balmer: http://t.co/gahcGmx for more #puls11 #fb 2011-04-11
Mary Cathryn Ricker asks us to think about the things we valued about the best teachers we have encountered. #puls11 #fb 2011-04-11
Ricker: those values should be at the heart of teacher evaluation. #puls11 #fb 2011-04-11
@nic221 why iOS apps look better? Apple's iOS SDK takes care of the details "for free"… not true on Android. in reply to nic221 2011-04-11
Ricker: tenure should never be an accident. (I wonder, should tenure be at all?) #puls11 2011-04-11
Ricker notes the challenge of recognizing great teachers without removing them from the classroom. #puls11 #fb 2011-04-11
Ricker: formal evaluation can't compare to the impact of real parent interaction. Critical to be engaged with parents. #puls11 #fb 2011-04-11
Ricker a very smooth and powerful presenter, we will see more of her. #puls11 #fb 2011-04-11
Ricker refuses to share the percentage of teachers tenured in St Paul. Why? Are the numbers so high as to prove tenure suspect? #puls11 #fb 2011-04-11
@CLIRDLF gets Sloan Foundation support to hone data curation skills in libs. "…maintaining skills in data curation must become central…" 2011-04-11
The current MN ed bill takes from special ed and integration to fund the rest. It will need public support for a veto. #puls11 2011-04-11
In MN Senate conf room with Parents United to talk with legislative leadership about ed bills. #puls11 2011-04-11
Rep. Garofalo lies to Parents United, calls a MN House bill that cuts $22m from funding one that increases funding $480m. Shame! #puls11 #fb 2011-04-11
no way, a floorplan from pictures… http://j.mp/en6y3H …there are some very creative people out there in iOS land 2011-04-13
Very bummed out I won't be seeing as much of Northfield as I'd hoped! 2011-04-14
I am amazed and thankful for the blessings the world sends my way. Today Nate told me what he is feeling, how lucky I am for that! 2011-04-16
ePub rules! RT @lorcanD: Double column PDFs …. I hate 'em. Don't want to print this. 2011-04-16